Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt’s Kamilaroi and Kurnai [electronic resource] /
Gardner, Helen.author.
McConvell, Patrick.author.
Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Maps""; ""List of Tables""; ""Note on Spelling""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Southern Anthropology""; ""1 Introduction: The Publication of Kamilaroi and Kurnai""; ""2 Morgan: Imagining Kinship""; ""3 The Unity of World Kinship: A Southern Perspective""; ""Part II: Finding Kin: Fison in the Antipodes""; ""4 The Apocalypse in the South: Fison in Victoria and Fiji""; ""5 Twice Converted: Fison?s Epiphany""; ""6 Cracks in the Theory: The Problems of the Pacific""
""7 Fison?s Fiji Discovery and the Interpretation of Kinship History""""Part III: Kin and Skin""; ""8 Seeing Gamilaraay""; ""9 Evidence and Anomalies from Australian and Pacific Sites""; ""10 Howitt and Tulaba""; ""11 The Turn from Kin to Skin""; ""Part IV: From Encounter to Page: The Writing of Kamilaroi and Kurnai""; ""12 Time, Human Difference and Evolution in Oceania""; ""13 Pen to Paper: Writing Kamilaroi and Kurnai""; ""14 Kamilaroi and Kurnai: The Content and the Form""; ""15 The Anthropology of Kinship in Kamilaroi and Kurnai""
""Part V: The Reception and Legacy of Kamilaroi and Kurnai""""16 The British Response to Kamilaroi and Kurnai""; ""17 The Legacy of Kamilaroi and Kurnai in the Anthropology of Kinship""; ""18 Conclusion: Southern Anthropology""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres.
Fison, Lorimer, 1832-1907.
Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908.
Islands of the Pacific—History.
Ethnology.
Social groups.
Family.
World history.
Social history.
Australasian History.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.